Wards to Weapons — The Demon Cycle • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

Zur, Eternal Schemer

Flying
Enchantment creatures you control have deathtouch, lifelink, and hexproof.

: Target non-Aura enchantment you control becomes a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$3.99 $3.72 $2.39

Commander

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Stonecoil Serpent

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact - Snake

$0.99 $0.35 $0.15

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $0.74

Air Elemental

Flying

Creature - Elemental

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Water Elemental

Creature - Elemental

$0.39 $0.44 $0.23

Creature

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Cycling

Qty: 4 Price: $1.40

Rune of Protection: Black

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Rune of Protection: Blue

: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling

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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Rune of Protection: Green

: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Rune of Protection: Red

: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Cycling

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $7.00

Dark Bargain

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Dark Bargain deals 2 damage to you.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Demonic Lore

When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 2 life for each card in your hand.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Entity Tracker

Flash
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, draw a card.

Creature - Human Scout

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Mesa Enchantress

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

Creature - Human Druid

$1.29 $1.10 $0.66

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery

$1.79 $3.66 $0.63

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.32 $0.18

Rune of Flight

Enchant permanent
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has flying.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has flying."

Enchantment - Aura Rune

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Rune of Mortality

Enchant permanent
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has deathtouch.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has deathtouch."

Enchantment - Aura Rune

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Rune of Sustenance

Enchant permanent
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has lifelink.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has lifelink."

Enchantment - Aura Rune

$0.99 $0.39 $0.15

Runed Crown

When this Equipment enters, you may search your library, hand, and/or graveyard for a Rune card and put it onto the battlefield attached to this Equipment. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Draw

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Enchantment

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Ward of Piety

Enchant creature

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn is dealt to any target instead.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Enchantment

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $32.99

Opalescence

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Enchantment

$32.99 $37.07 $25.76

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $290.36

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.69 $0.30 $0.29

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.79 $0.81 $0.50

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.79 $0.31 $0.18

Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$---- $---- $----

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$2.49 $1.22 $1.03

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

Fabled Passage

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land

$2.29 $1.07 $0.83

Fetid Pools

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Island Swamp

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$37.99 $25.56 $23.96

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.17

Godless Shrine

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$9.99 $---- $----

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$9.99 $---- $----

Irrigated Farmland

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $---- $----

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.38 $0.20

Marsh Flats

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$47.99 $40.04 $36.20

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$42.99 $29.73 $27.07

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $---- $----

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$37.99 $28.24 $24.99

Prairie Stream

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Raffine's Tower

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: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$18.99 $12.53 $10.94

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $3.92 $3.32

Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$24.99 $20.25 $19.78

Shattered Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $2.01 $1.41

Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$---- $---- $15.33

Sunken Hollow

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$0.99 $0.39 $0.21

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $---- $----

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$3.49 $1.71 $1.77

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$18.99 $16.49 $15.57

Watery Grave

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$9.99 $---- $----

Land

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Protection

Qty: 16 Price: $53.72

Circle of Protection: Black

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Circle of Protection: Blue

: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Circle of Protection: Green

: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Circle of Protection: Red

: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.22 $0.20

Circle of Protection: White

: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Fountain Watch

Artifacts and enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Human Cleric

$2.79 $2.35 $1.90

Greater Auramancy

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creatures you control have shroud.

Enchantment

$34.99 $39.69 $19.05

Hanna's Custody

All artifacts have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Enchantment

$3.49 $6.08 $2.27

Pentarch Ward

Enchant creature
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Protective Sphere

, Pay 1 life: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by a source of your choice that shares a color with the mana spent on this activation cost. (Colorless mana prevents no damage.)

Enchantment

$0.39 $0.20 $0.15

Rune of Protection: White

: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Runed Halo

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name.
You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays

for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.80 $3.61

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature - Leviathan

$1.99 $2.18 $0.50

Story Circle

As this enchantment enters, choose a color.

: The next time a source of your choice of the chosen color would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Enchantment

$1.29 $1.03 $0.26

Ward of Lights

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
Enchant creature
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 2 Price: $1.04

Runechanter's Pike

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Runed Stalactite

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and is every creature type.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 3 Price: $3.13

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

First strike, vigilance, lifelink
Aura and Equipment spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by

. (During your turn, you may pay

and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Whenever you foretell a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature - Demon Cleric

$1.99 $1.53 $0.86

Killian, Ink Duelist

Lifelink
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Spells you cast that target a creature cost

less to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 5 Price: $25.15

Brilliant Restoration

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.48 $0.95

Dance of the Manse

Return up to X target artifact and/or non-Aura enchantment cards each with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If X is 6 or more, those permanents are 4/4 creatures in addition to their other types.

Sorcery

$0.79 $1.30 $0.40

Open the Vaults

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Resurgent Belief

Suspend 2—

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay

and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.62 $0.93

Starfield of Nyx

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
As long as you control five or more enchantments, each other non-Aura enchantment you control is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Enchantment

$19.99 $15.09 $12.60

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 13 Price: $14.11

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.39 $0.15

Banishing Light

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Enchantment

$0.59 $---- $0.41

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.79 $1.25 $0.56

Demon of Dark Schemes

Flying
When this creature enters, all other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever another creature dies, you get

(an energy counter).

, Pay

: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped.

Creature - Demon

$2.29 $1.41 $0.65

Detention Sphere

When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Grasp of Fate

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.32 $0.31

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.35 $0.20

Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment

$3.49 $2.74 $1.50

Prison Term

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may attach this Aura to that creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Reaper from the Abyss

Flying
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

Creature - Demon

$1.49 $0.51 $0.20

Seal of Cleansing

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Seal of Doom

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.20 $0.18

Soul Snare

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Exile target creature that's attacking you or a planeswalker you control.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $27.99

Ward of Bones

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't cast creature spells. The same is true for artifacts and enchantments.
Each opponent who controls more lands than you can't play lands.

Artifact

$27.99 $28.56 $21.31

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 3 Price: $11.07

Burning-Rune Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon Berserker

$8.49 $4.38 $4.01

Demonic Bargain

Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.33 $0.20

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon

$1.79 $0.75 $0.26

Tutor

(CTRL to add secondary)

Tokens & Extras

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Nightmare

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library.

Creature Token - Nightmare

$1.79 $0.62 $0.43

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 99Est cost: $475.82

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.17Total Mana Value: 200.00

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Pump

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Recursion

Removal

Stax

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49 pips - 37 cards

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18 mana - 18 cards

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13 pips - 9 cards

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20 mana - 20 cards

Cost

26 pips - 16 cards

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18 mana - 18 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 2 cards

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0 mana - 2 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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5 mana - 5 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.17Total Mana Value: 200.00

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